Goodfellas
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Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro (February 4, 1915 – July 27, 2000) was an American painter, poet and the mother of actor Robert De Niro. She studied painting under Hans Hofmann in New York, and her work was included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro (February 4, 1915 – July 27, 2000) was an American painter, poet and the mother of actor Robert De Niro. She studied painting under Hans Hofmann in New York, and her work was included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
Jul 27, 2000 · Virginia Admiral, 85, a painter and writer and the mother of actor Robert DeNiro. The Oregon-born Admiral studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. While working on the Federal Arts Project in Oakland in the late 1930s, she and the poet Robert Duncan produced a single issue of the magazine Epitaph, which later became The Experimental Review.
De Niro studied with Hans Hofmann at his Provincetown, Massachusetts, summer school. Hofmann's teaching on Abstract Expressionism and Cubist formalism had a strong influence on De Niro's development as a mature artist. At Hofmann's summer school, he met fellow student Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942.
While part of this vanguard circle, Admiral and De Niro, Sr. married and, in 1943, Admiral gave birth to their son, Robert De Niro. Admiral’s artistic output caught the attention of Peggy Guggenheim, a champion of modern artists in both Europe and the States.
Aug 16, 2000 · Virginia Admiral, 85, a painter and writer and the mother of actor Robert DeNiro. The Oregon-born Admiral studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Feb 3, 2014 · In 1946 the De Niros separated amicably, and Virginia Admiral moved to an apartment on West Fourteenth Street with her two-year-old son. She started a typing service to support them....
